1 million USD in damages? Yeah, like a 16 year old could buy 1 million USD worth of music. And yet, some clowns are actually trying to justify this!

How is "Let's completely ruin this kids life to scare the millions of people we didn't catch" a morally sound strategy? Like somebody in "Steal this movie" said this is like putting the heads of a few culprits on spears on the city wall in medieval times.